The Pound Gap of Pine Mountain is on the Virginia/Kentucky border between Jenkins, Kentucky and Pound, Virginia. It served as a passage for early settlers to cross into Kentucky from Virginia. Today, U.S. Route 23 passes through the gap.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gaskill and Dunham.

Gaskill

Hamlet

Gaskill is an unincorporated community located in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States.

Dunham

Hamlet

Dunham is an unincorporated community and coal town in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. Dunham's post office operated in the community from 1913 to 1960.

Payne Gap

Hamlet

Payne Gap is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. Its population was 329 as of the 2010 census. U.S. Route 119 passes through the community. Payne Gap is situated 2 miles southwest of Jenkins.

Jenkins

Categories: city in the United States and locality
Location: Letcher, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.17344° or 37° 10′ 24″ north

Longitude

-82.63099° or 82° 37′ 52″ west

Population

2,300

Elevation

1,539 feet (469 metres)

Open location code

869V59F9+9J

OpenStreetMap ID

node 153995867

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

4296229

Wikidata ID

Q993555

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Jenkins” goes by many names.

Arabic: “جينكينز (كنتاكي)”
Arabic: “جينكينز”
Basque: “Jenkins”
Belarusian: “Джэнкінс”
Bulgarian: “Дженкинс”
Catalan: “Jenkins”
Cebuano: “Jenkins”
Chechen: “Дженкинс”
Chinese: “Jenkins”
Chinese: “詹金斯”
Czech: “Jenkins”
Danish: “Jenkins”
Dutch: “Jenkins”
Egyptian Arabic: “جينكينز”
French: “Jenkins”
German: “Jenkins”
Gilaki: “جنکینز (کنتاکي)”
Gilaki: “جنکینز”
Haitian: “Jenkins, Kentucky”
Haitian: “Jenkins”
Hebrew: “ג’נקינס”
Ido: “Jenkins, Kentucky”
Ido: “Jenkins”
Irish: “Jenkins”
Italian: “Jenkins”
Japanese: “ジェンキンス”
Japanese: “ジェンキンズ”
Kazakh: “Djenkïns”
Kazakh: “Дженкинс”
Kazakh: “دجەنكىينس”
Kirghiz: “Дженкинс”
Korean: “젱킨스”
Ladin: “Jenkins”
Malagasy: “Jenkins, Kentucky”
Malagasy: “Jenkins”
Mazanderani: “جنکینس”
Min Nan Chinese: “Jenkins”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Jenkins”
Norwegian: “Jenkins”
Persian: “جنکینس، کنتاکی”
Persian: “جنکینس”
Polish: “Jenkins”
Portuguese: “Jenkins”
Romanian: “Jenkins, Kentucky”
Romanian: “Jenkins”
Russian: “Дженкинс”
Serbian: “Џенкинс”
Serbo-Croatian: “Jenkins, Kentucky”
Serbo-Croatian: “Jenkins”
Slovak: “Jenkins”
South Azerbaijani: “جنکینس، کنتاکی”
Spanish: “Jenkins”
Swedish: “Jenkins, Kentucky”
Swedish: “Jenkins”
Tatar: “Дженкинс”
Ukrainian: “Дженкінс”
Urdu: “جینکنز، کینٹکی”
Urdu: “جینکنز”
Uzbek: “Jenkins”
Uzbek: “Женкинс”
Volapük: “Jenkins”

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Notable Places Nearby

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